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Aben Resources (TSX.V: ABN) is a Canadian gold and silver exploration company with a focus on developing properties in the Yukon.

The Company acquired from Eagle Plains Resources (TSX.V: EPL) a 100% interest in two gold exploration properties known as the Justin and Hit Projects located in the eastern Yukon Territory. A phase one 2020 metre diamond drill program consisting of ten drill holes was carried out in 2011 on the 11,098 acre Justin Project to assess the potential gold mineralization at the property's POW, Confluence, Kangas and Main zones. The drilling was the first ever completed on the POW, Confluence and Kangas zones. Aben recently released the drill hole results from the 2011 program in which a significant new greenfield gold discovery was made at the POW Zone on the Justin Project. The Company intercepted 60.00 metres of 1.19 g/t gold in hole JN11009 at a vertical depth of 113 metres. Additionally, a new high grade silver-copper zone was discovered at the Kangas Zone with hole JN11003 returning 1.07 metres of 7320 g/t silver (234 oz/ton) and 3.52% copper near surface. As a result of these discoveries on the Justin Project, Aben has staked 7,058 additional acres of mineral tenure in the immediate vicinity of the project. This new ground will facilitate an even more aggressive work program next season.

Aben Resources has been granted the exclusive exploration rights to 426,821 acres (1,727 square kilometres) of land directly east of the Yukon/NWT Territorial border known as the Selwyn Recce area. The area has garnered considerable attention recently with the discovery of Carlin-style mineralization in the Yukon at ATAC Resources' (TSX.V: ATC) Osiris gold zone discovery. The current Aben permits cover prospective targets with both Carlin-style stratigraphy and promising geochemical signatures. Field crews completed a very large scale regional reconnaissance program on the Company's Selwyn Recce Gold Project this year that included geological mapping, regional prospecting, geochemical surveys and geophysical surveys. Eighteen high priority targets had previously been identified to form the focus of the project's 2011 exploration efforts. As a result of a proprietary database acquired earlier this year and the extensive exploration work carried out this season, the Company has been very aggressive in staking land in the Selwyn Recce area. In total, an additional 147,404 acres of highly prospective ground in the NWT and the Yukon was staked by Aben in the region.

The Company also acquired a 100% interest in the Rusty Springs silver-lead-zinc property, located north of Dawson City, Yukon, where notable historical drill results include 1,140 g/t (33.27 oz/t) silver, 4.72% lead and 2.30% copper over 37.5 metres (123 feet) from surface.

Aben has a 100% interest in the Rude Creek South gold property located in the heart of Yukon's White Gold District approximately 40 kilometres southeast of Kaminak Gold Corp.'s (TSX.V: KAM) Coffee Creek gold property, 60 kilometres southeast of Kinross' (TSX: K) (previously Underworld Resources') Golden Saddle gold deposit, and 10 kilometres east of Western Copper Corp.'s (TSX: WRN) Casino gold, copper and molybdenum deposit. This deposit contains a resource of 8 million ounces of gold, 4.4 billion pounds of copper and 475 million pounds of molybdenum.

The Company's goal is to increase shareholder value by developing exploration projects near world-class deposits that have the potential of becoming new discoveries.

Tim J. Termuende, P.Geo., is a director and the Qualified Person for Aben Resources as defined by National Instrument 43-101 and has reviewed and approved the technical information in this project section.

Some of the properties were acquired from and past exploration was carried out by Eagle Plains Resources (TSX-V: EPL), a reporting issuer. The Company has not yet completed the work necessary to verify the past exploration results and since some of these results are historical in nature and some results predate National Instrument 43-101 standards, these results should not be relied upon.  

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